Michelle Obama: Kids not ‘horrified’ by clip

Capping off a week of media appearances, first lady Michelle Obama on Friday said she doesn’t mind poking fun at herself — and neither do her kids — if it gets more people active.

Obama’s media push for the fourth anniversary of her anti-obesity “Let’s Move” initiative began last week with a guest appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” where she showed off some of her dance moves. But she said Friday that her two daughters weren’t surprised.

The first lady said she’s happy to set an example for other parents in not taking herself too seriously, suggesting that dancing might even be a way to sneak exercise in for kids.

“Sometimes if you get up and dance and you’re silly, maybe your kids get up and dance and they’re silly and let their guard down, and you do that for 30 minutes and before you know it, you’ve exercised and nobody is the wiser,” Obama said. “I figure if the first lady can laugh at herself and be silly, maybe some more moms and dads would get up and do the same thing with their kids.”

Obama said when it comes to her two teenage daughters, she keeps the conversation off image and on exercise.

“We don’t talk about weight. We don’t talk about physical appearance,” Obama said, according to an excerpt released by NBC. “We talk about health. We talk about what’s on the inside. … We talk about exercise — we talk about it in terms of how it makes you feel and how it affects what you can accomplish throughout the course of the school day. So we keep our messages really simple and practical. It’s not about image.”

In terms of her own image, Obama said she doesn’t mind that some focus on her style as long as she can use that to highlight substance.

“I’m not the first one to go through it. Your mom, you know, it was the same thing for her,” Obama told “Today” correspondent Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush. “My philosophy has been, OK, if you’re looking at me for whatever reason, let me make sure I’m standing in front of something really important, so that while you’re seeing my shoes, you may also see these kids jumping around in this preschool. So as long as the outcome is substantive, then I’m OK with the means to the end.”

Obama is marking the fourth anniversary this week of her get healthy program with a series of rollouts of new food standards as well as a social media campaign aimed to get people moving.

In addition to her late-night and early morning NBC appearances, it was also announced Thursday that she will hit NBC’s prime time with a cameo on the April 24 season finale of “Parks and Recreation.” The storyline will feature healthy programs in a reference to Let’s Move.